Ed Young
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Once there was a little slip of a boy who roamed the streets of London, hungry for life (and maybe a bit of bread). His dad long gone and his actress mother ailing, five-year-old Charlie found himself onstage one day taking his mum'ss place, singing and drawing laughs amid a shower of coins. There were times in the poorhouse and times spent sitting in the window at home with Mum, making up funny stories about passersby. And when Charlie described...
43) Seven fathers
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A lone traveler, tired, hungry, and cold, finds a house and asks for a room for the night, but the old man to whom he speaks refers him to his father, and that man to his father, until he is finally rewarded for his efforts by the eldest.
44) Dreamcatcher
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In the land of the Ojibway a baby sleeps, protected from bad dreams, as the life of the tribe goes on around him.
50) Yugen
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Illustrations, simple text, and haiku reveal a young boy's longing and remembrance of his mother.
52) Cats are cats
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A collection of thirty-six poems about all kinds of cats, from old grumbling cats to proud cats who sit tall, by poets including Eve Merriam, Jane Yolen, John Ciardi, and T. S. Eliot.